Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Children Reports: Office of Ombudsman for Children

6:00 pm

Dr. Niall Muldoon:

Inter-agency co-operation is still not as smooth as it should be. It is fair to say that whether one refers to it as a silo mentality or provides another reason. It is a recurring issue that we would like to see change. Even across governance, we nowadays talk about "corporate parenting", which is a term that has come in.